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We study how climate change is shifting the chemistry of the Arctic Ocean.

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Project Overview

Find details on our project goals and sampling plan, which includes the development of novel in-situ radium samplers.

Outreach

Learn about our collaboration with artist Diane Burko, and find out how to become involved in the project as an undergraduate researcher.

Publications

Read the latest results from our work studying radium in the Arctic.

Scientific Objective

 

ARION is a combined shipboard and mooring-based observational network for measuring radium isotopes in the Arctic Ocean in order to detect and understand long term changes in material fluxes from the Arctic shelves to the central basins.

ARION 2023 cruise underway

By lkipp | August 27, 2023

The 2023 ARION expedition is underway! PI Kipp is sailing on the USCGC Healy (photo below), which departed from Alaska yesterday. This cruise continues our partnership with NABOS (the Nansen & Amundsen Basin Observational System), and you can follow the progress at the NABOS cruise blog hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks here

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